A Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project may potentially open a new avenue for mass deportations, according to one lawyer involved.
Then-President Joe Biden claimed victory in 2023 when egg prices fell by 22%, after tripling during his first two years in office. But Biden left his successor, President Donald Trump, a poultry price fiasco. The egg price spikes helped crack the chances of a Democratic victory in 2024. Egg prices became a symbol of stubbornly […]
Democrats have landed a few punches on President Donald Trump. But these may help him, not them. One was his withdrawal of a memo about his order to freeze some spending. Democrats diligently frightened the public by falsely suggesting this would cut Medicaid payments and other money flows mandated by law. Oppositional bureaucrats apparently also […]
If I could buttonhole you for a moment, fellow citizen, to lament a general concern that may seem rather secondary amid the shrill noise of other pressing concerns. Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How cheese-tastingly, pearl-clutchingly, museum-board precious. Especially in a time of […]
On a cold January morning on the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, four young African men in puffer coats are posted hoods-up at the four corners of the crossroads with the Boulevard Saint-Martin. Sentries for drug dealers, they scan the commuters emerging from the Métro and the McDonald’s, watch the alternating […]
There are certain films that look incredible — on paper. Those films are often put on the “Black List,” a register of the most-loved unproduced screenplays in Hollywood as determined by a survey of Hollywood machers. (Think the Associated Press and Coaches’ college football polls, but for people who earnestly say, “Let’s do lunch.”) Flight […]
If you live in California and want something to be done on time and within its budget, well, you should probably try doing it somewhere other than California. California has become a model of doing things as slowly and expensive as possible, and no issue so seemingly simple is immune from this. Rob Pyers, the […]
Washington had four years to prepare for a second Trump presidency. But are there signs that the president’s political opponents didn’t do their homework?...